Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Alexis Munier (Lausanne, Switzerland) relocated from California to Europe in her mid-twenties and began teaching English at world-renown language schools in Russia, Slovenia, and Italy. After a stint in Zurich where she was a nanny to a Swiss-German family and had a number of Swiss and Austrian boyfriends, she took to dirty German slang like a Berliner takes to beer. Now a writer and opera singer based in Switzerland, Ms. Munier still finds time to visit Vienna regularly, where she never fails sing Wagner and feast on Wienerschnitzel, and a frosty mug of Bier

.Karin Eberhardt (New York, NY) was born and raised in the wine-growing regions of the German Rheinland. While completing work on masteras degrees in German and English, she visited New York City and met her future husband on a subway train. Ms. Eberhardt currently spends her days as a teacher specializing in cross-cultural German-American projects and nights educating her American artist husband in the 101 ways of Bavarian sausage-making.

Synopsis:

Sprechen Sie Dirty Deutsch?

If you think German is all brat and no wurst, you need to think again. German is sexier?and dirtier?than you might imagine. (Think Hamburg ) From hearts and violins to pigs and dogs, Goethe's native tongue is ripe?and rank?with creative obscenities, including:

Kuck mal diese geile Schnitte

Look at that sexy chick

Literal translation: Look at that sexy slice

Alle wissen dass Klaus sehr gut geigt

.Everyone knows Klaus f**ks well.

Literal translation: Everyone knows Klaus plays the violin well.

Markus, du bist ein verdammter Schweinehund.

Markus, you?re a f**king moron.

Literal translation: Markus, you are a damned pig dog.

In this book, you receive a basic introduction into the netherworlds (and nether regions) of the true Jargon. Whether seducing a M?dchen in M?nchen or a Kerl in K?ln, this gritty linguistic guide is all you need to know to talk dirty the German way.

If you think German is all brat and no wurst, you need to think again. German is sexier?and dirtier?than you might imagine. (Think Hamburg ) From hearts and violins to pigs and dogs, Goethe's native tongue is ripe?and rank?with creative obscenities, including:

Kuck mal diese geile Schnitte

Look at that sexy chick

Literal translation: Look at that sexy slice

Alle wissen dass Klaus sehr gut geigt

.Everyone knows Klaus f**ks well.

Literal translation: Everyone knows Klaus plays the violin well.

Markus, du bist ein verdammter Schweinehund.

Markus, you?re a f**king moron.

Literal translation: Markus, you are a damned pig dog.

In this book, you receive a basic introduction into the netherworlds (and nether regions) of the true Jargon. Whether seducing a M?dchen in M?nchen or a Kerl in K?ln, this gritty linguistic guide is all you need to know to talk dirty the German way.

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